tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-492174345240444269.post884895181530641789..comments2019-05-25T06:36:35.315+02:00Comments on Julien Frisch: European Elections 2009 (30): PES and ELDR manifesto - updatedJulien Frischhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18167141111642456560noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-492174345240444269.post-10294252085350568632008-12-16T09:56:00.000+01:002008-12-16T09:56:00.000+01:00Thanks for this link, which is interesting indeed....Thanks for this link, which is interesting indeed. Most relevant for me, who is interested in the process a bit more than in the result, is the following paragraph from this Economist article:<BR/><BR/>"<I>First, Europe’s centre-left parties are split over how best to protect jobs. At a meeting in Madrid to draft the PES manifesto, some west European parties wanted language about limiting the free movement of workers within the EU, says Denis MacShane, a British parliamentarian who represents the Labour Party in the PES. But representatives from new, lower-cost EU countries like Hungary, Poland and Lithuania rejected these ideas, insisting “free movement is one of the best things about the EU.” In the end, PES leaders fudged it, with a clause saying merely that reduced social standards and wage cuts should not give one country a “competitive advantage” over another “at the expense of workers”.</I>"<BR/><BR/>Far less interesting is the article from <I>EUobserver</I>:<BR/>http://euobserver.com/883/27202Julien Frischhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18167141111642456560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-492174345240444269.post-7138220432844360552008-12-15T18:14:00.000+01:002008-12-15T18:14:00.000+01:00Good post Julien.In case you didn't catch it, Char...Good post Julien.<BR/><BR/>In case you didn't catch it, Charlemagne at the Economist has some (not very complimentary) words to say about the Manifesto: http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12767280Steffenhttp://steffen78.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.com